economy

Tonight's State of the Union address-more of the same

I don’t understand all aspects of the markets.  I admit that.  But even a couple of insiders and experts I’ve talked to recently are rubbing their heads and saying the same thing.  This is all very, very confusing.  Oil is all over the radar, gas prices have eased very little, the market swings are increasingly violent and few, if any, investors are feeling especially confident these days... Read

I'm not a broker.  I'm no financial guru.  But I can read the writing on the wall.  I try to see the forest beyond the trees.  But I'm baffled, I must say.  I thought all the urgency to raise the debt ceiling and avert a default (which is going to happen, sooner or later; sorry Timmy Geitner) was to stop this very thing from happening: wetting down what little confidence there was and bringing the

I took a drive into Wilbarger County over the past weekend and what I saw was impressive.  I saw acres of pump jacks working just as hard as they could.  Obviously, oil at $95 per barrel is attractive enough to the producers to warrant running those pump jacks...

You may have to dig deep into your pockets to get to Tokyo. You may have to dig even deeper to stay.

Remember the American dream? Well, it might be a distant memory, if one survey is to be believed. A new poll of 600 Americans found citizens are upset about several issues.

I write on these things because it is just as important to those of us in Texoma as it is to those in New York or Los Angeles or anywhere else.  It will effect everything in your life.  Warning: I'm going to give you a figurative slap across the face now...

You'd think we'd have learned something from the summer of 2008.  I guess not.  Here we go again.  Oil flirting with $100 per barrel.